When a baby is born, they’re assigned a biological sex — either male or female — based on their genitals.

You may have even learned your baby’s sex before birth in a similar way. Nothing between the legs on the ultrasound? “Congratulations — it’s a girl,” you hear. (Unless something is hidden from view, right?)

But it can actually be a bit more complicated than that.

Sometimes, a baby can have genitalia with some male characteristics and some female characteristics. And even deeper than external appearance, some people are born with a mix of male and female biological features (such as a uterus and testicles) that can’t be seen on the outside.

When someone doesn’t fall exactly into the “male” or “female” sex designation, the term “intersex” may be used.

Intersex isn’t new, and it isn’t political in and of itself. It’s just a more widely recognizable term now — though a lot of people still don’t understand it.

Britney, like Caster Semenya, is obviously an intersex person

Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal

BY GERALD IMRAY Published 3:35 AM CDT, July 11, 2023

Champion runner Caster Semenya won a potentially landmark legal decision for sports on Tuesday when the European Court of Human Rights decided she was discriminated against by rules in track and field that force her to medically reduce her natural hormone levels to compete in major competitions.

But the two-time Olympic champion’s success after her two failed appeals in sports’ highest court in 2019 and the Swiss supreme court in 2020 came with a major caveat. The ruling didn’t strike down the rules and the world track and field body said soon after it was released that the contentious testosterone regulations would “remain in place.”

While the 32-year-old Semenya is fighting to be allowed to run again without restrictions, that might still take years, if it happens at all. It’s unlikely she’d be able to go for another gold in the 800 meters at next year’s Olympics in Paris. Next month’s world championships, where she has won three titles, are almost certainly not an option.

The South African athlete’s legal challenge has taken five years so far and it could take equally as long for the process of rolling back the cases through the different courts.

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The fact that Brittney Griner and Caster are intersex persons does not make them weird. They were born with male testicles inside their bodies and with female genitalia outside. Until puberty they appear as any normal girls. After puberty they can develop strong male characteristics and in their case they did.

My reason for posting this article is that both Brittney and Caster have unfair advantages in speed and strength sports over their normal female competitors. I have no personal animus towards either person and wish them well. If I were either one of them I would pursue fame and fortune just as they have by taking advantage of my natural testosterone elevation and natural sports talent over my female rivals. Doing so does not make them bad or evil.

The issue is whether or not they should be allowed to do so in the name of fairness and equity. Trans-women like Lia Thomas, the 6′ 4″ male swimmer, are mentally ill and evil for taking advantage of normal women in their sports. That is a similar but different issue. Transwomen (i.e., men) should not be competing against real women. Transwomen are not and never will be real women.

Caster has simply destroyed all the women’s records she competes in in track. At the least there should be an asterisk beside her name and times. The worse part of it is that normal women who have trained and sacrificed all of their lives have no chance of winning the gold if they have the misfortune of competing against her. It is a bit of a dilemma. I honestly don’t know the moral and ethical answer to this problem.

Listening to the tape below it is obvious that Brittney has intersex qualities. Her voice is obviously that of a young man rather than a young woman.

Brittney Griner #42 and Sophie Cunningham of the Phoenix Mercury are shown during the game against the Atlanta Dream on July 25, 2023, at Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia. (Adam Hagy/NBAE via Getty Images)

Photo credit: Paola Kudacki

Before Winning 2 Gold Medals, Brittney Griner Commented on How High Testosterone Levels Could Have Possibly Ended Her Olympics Dream

Published 07/30/2022, 10:00 AM CDT By NIRJHAR SHARMA – for Essential Sports

Brittney Griner is one of the faces of the WNBA. The Phoenix Mercury star has played for them for more than eight years now. Phoenix selected Brittney as the first overall pick in the 2013 WNBA Draft. She is a two-time defensive player of the year and is known for her defensive powers. Brittney Griner is also the only NCAA basketball player to both score 2,000 points and block 500 shots.

She made dunking famous in the WNBA. Griner was the first WNBA player ever to dunk twice on her debut. Griner has been in the news recently because she is being detained in Russia. Brittney has also always been open about her gender identity and the consequences attached to it. One old resurfaced article talks about one such issue.

The old article talked about Brittney Griner and her Olympic basketball dream. Griner’s participation in the 2016 Rio Olympics was under the scanner for some time due to an IOC rule at the time regarding testosterone levels in female athletes. Notably, Griner went on to win two Olympic gold medals with the US women’s basketball team in 2016 and 2020.

When the author of the article asked Griner about the IOC rules, Griner said she would likely be “fine“, while suggesting that she has never taken a testosterone test before. The author goes on to ask Griner what she would do if she didn’t pass the test.

“I don’t know,” she replied.

“You’ll cross that bridge when you come to it,” the author replied.

“Yeah,” Griner said, as the author admitted Griner did not wish to further the topic of the conversation any longer.

Readers’ comments:

Jerry Debook

7mo

Large protruding adams apple, same body proportions as a castrated adolescent male once full grown, notice the long arms long neck, long legs, wide shoulders and thinness typical of young males who have been castrated…males castrated later in life run to fat but when its young they dont. plenty of photos shirtless shooting hoops, not just the chest of a male but a female wouldnt be shooting hoops shirtless in the neighborhood. possibly accidentally castrated in a surgical error or accident and so they transitioned him to female. Also possibly simply a human anomaly with both male and female parts many of whom choose one sex or the other rather than remain hermaphroditic. Be pretty hard to convince me not either a male, or a one in a million hermaphrodite.

Margo McKaine

Author has 3.8K answers and 12.2M answer viewsUpdated 7mo

I think that Griner is intersex. According to photos of her when she was small, she looked like any other little girl, with pigtails and a dress. I think that she was born intersex and the parents decided to raise her as a girl. But when she got much older, the male aspects manifested much more than the female. Voice, Adam’s apple, size, height, size of feet, size of hands, lack of female physicality in the hips, chest, and butt. Have you seen that body profile head to toe nude photo of her in the photo shoot she did? You cannot see any genitalia, of course, but her buttocks are fully exposed and they are the buttocks of a grown male, not a grown female.

Yes, I think she was intersex and the parents made a decision when she was born. But now she is manifesting more as a male than she will ever manifest as a female. I do not think at all that she or anyone else did anything in the way of being transgender.